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Alex's Grandma
03:34 / 23.05.07
A thread for discussing feelings of anxiety, despair or existential ennui that have been brought on, or at least accelerated, by lolcats.

(I await the forthcoming 'Kitteh' posts with pretty much unmixed dead, you pranksters! I may well have a heart attack! Not, I suppose, that any of you would mind.)
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
03:42 / 23.05.07
"Unmixed dead" -- you keep your corpses in a pile, not catalogued by race/gender/manner of demise? How cosmopolitan!

Personally, I'm concerned by this need to fill up the Convo with irreverant cascade threads followed by threads that bemoan the existence of the first sort of threads and seek to console the Barbebody over the resulting ennui. Do we need to rename the Convo as the Psychiatrist's Couch? Agony Aunt-Forum?

On the plus side, it's like the barbannoy thread has left the Barbezeitgeist.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
04:21 / 23.05.07
I'm concerned by this need to fill up the Convo with irreverant cascade threads followed by threads that bemoan the existence of the first sort of threads and seek to console the Barbebody over the resulting ennui. Do we need to rename the Convo as the Psychiatrist's Couch? Agony Aunt-Forum?

Hoist, perhaps, from your own petard, Mr Bond?
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:25 / 23.05.07
Merely an intriguing phenomenon, dahling.
 
 
*
05:41 / 23.05.07
They'll all have gone to the great humane society in the sky in a month, alright? When somebody starts writing scholarly articles about a joke, that joke is not merely pining for the fjords.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
07:33 / 23.05.07

 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:37 / 23.05.07
Don't look at me. I tried to corral them into a single thread.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:12 / 23.05.07
I don't really mind the lolcats, they're a tad more amusing than ninjas and pirates, for example, but it does seem kind of bizarre to me that anyone might think they were some kind of genuinely useful tool for responding to trolling or bigotry. I think you should fight the real enemy though, Granny, which surely 'Steve' 'humour'.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
09:26 / 23.05.07
Yes Granny, I do find them slightly annoying when they crop up in threads that are actually going somewhere (which can be quite frequently, currently). Some of them are quite funny. I like Lazercat saying "Pew Pew".

I'm sure it's just a fad, darling. We sort of *want* 'lith to have fads, don't we? It's only when they start to take over completely that Lazercat's pew pewing must be scorched with Lithcat's baleful glare...

And yes, Fly, I must concur. I love Stoatie but do not particularly love Steve.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
09:49 / 23.05.07
yeah granny, we always come up with somethin' that's all the rage at the time. im enjoyin the kitty cats right now, and in the past weve had the huggles, those lil mouse like creatures that people gave hause, some cat glassin, ass candlin, all kinds o stuff. theyre fun for awhile then we move on, dont be scurred.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
09:56 / 23.05.07
I'm sure it's just a fad, darling

And I'm sure you're right. I have to object, though, to what seems like an on-line war against Steve.

I love him, the big dummy - is this so wrong?

I'm going to wave my virtual hand in the air, I'm going to stand up and be counted, I'm going to testify in favour of Steve - who's with me?!

Let me hear you say yeah
 
 
petunia
10:50 / 23.05.07
STEEV IZ TEH SUXXORZ
 
 
Quantum
10:52 / 23.05.07


STEVE DO NOT WANT.
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:54 / 23.05.07
You can hear me say "Who?"

You old fogeys with your secret Steve in-jokes. It's like a fascist state in here.

Only, y'know, without the fascism.

Kitteh is probably as close as I'll get to liking cats. At least they're not in my house, provoking my allergies.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
10:55 / 23.05.07
Not to say that sort of thing, ,trampetunia. Steve loves you.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:55 / 23.05.07
You mean IN YR HUOSE, PROVOKIN YR ALARJYZ, of course.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:14 / 23.05.07
SUCH THINGS BE NOT COMPUTE! LOLCAT HEAD HAVE EXPLODE!
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
11:38 / 23.05.07
Let me hear you say yeah

/...tumbleweed...
 
 
Quantum
12:06 / 23.05.07
Steve Davis is a famous snooker player, he's the Gary Linekar of the most boring sport evah.
 
 
Triplets
12:14 / 23.05.07
Not you, Granny.

Not you.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
12:22 / 23.05.07
whew! I thought I was the only one. I mean, not that lolcats are annoying, exactly, but I'm not laughing either. I didn't even know they were around until they got onto Barbelith, actually. so in a way, it's a good thing, because up until that point I had no idea what was funny about that xkcd comic.

I only watched the star wars kid video, like, once. I think there's something wrong with me.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
12:23 / 23.05.07
Or something very, very right.
 
 
Triplets
12:26 / 23.05.07
... what colour are both of your eyes, pants? We might have to keep you for observation and visiting Paris might be off the cards for a while.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
12:26 / 23.05.07
Msr Brigade, AFAIAC you are perfectly normal and it's everyone else that is a loony. But it's okay, I like loonies and normal people both the same.

If it's any consolation I saw the South Park Paris Hilton episode and had no idea who she was, I thought she was a South Park character. Imagine my delight when she said she was too beautiful and exciting to go to jail because her absence from our consciousness would be a blight on our otherwise mundane lives!
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
12:27 / 23.05.07
WHOA Paris coincidence.

Off to Temple with it...
 
 
Quantum
12:55 / 23.05.07
So, I'm assuming you cat haterz are lolrus fans then?

  
 
*
13:19 / 23.05.07
I...

I love lolrus and bucket. I don't know why.

Now I feel ashamed.
 
 
Triplets
13:25 / 23.05.07
I shouldn't. But I do.

Frankly, walruses aren't crap.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
13:29 / 23.05.07
goddamn it...

yes, the lolruses have actually made me laugh. audibly. meaning I can feel justified saying "lol". fuck if I'm happy admitting it though...guess I've still got some growing up to do. as garfield once said, it takes a big walrus to admit his mistakes.
 
 
Quantum
13:46 / 23.05.07
The lolrus is my wallpaper at home, and it makes me laugh a little bit every time. Check out these follow ups;





Many many more here
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:43 / 23.05.07
When internet memes get out of hand...

  
 
Triplets
15:48 / 23.05.07
On the bright side, Stoatie, the Americans wouldn't have noticed you kept saying "cheers".
 
 
Alex's Grandma
04:13 / 24.05.07
Those photos have deen doctored, presumably?

There's no way the walrus, as a species, is actually that potentially dangerous, is there?

You may laugh, but I don't know much about marine biology.
 
 
*
06:00 / 24.05.07
What photos? Are you referring to the photos of the trained walrus doing tricks with a handler?
 
 
Katherine
07:29 / 24.05.07
There's no way the walrus, as a species, is actually that potentially dangerous, is there?

Well, I do know of one zoo I went to where the keepers fed the male from the safety of standing on a wall, as the male figured out he could pin a keeper to the side of his enclosure and eat all the fish in the bucket.

Unfortunately as one keeper pointed out the walrus does not realise how much stronger and heavier he is compared to us, the keeper in question was the one who suffered three broken ribs from the walrus the last time he did that trick hence they no longer fed him from inside the enclosure. This is of course about a handreared animal rather than a wild one. But I would guess they can be dangerous in the same way an elephant can be.
 
  

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